Solid Organ Transplantation in Infants and Children

A new textbook of transplantation for infants and children is needed that is at least a first effort at achieving standard work in this field. Solid Organ Transplantation in Infants and Children provides a broad view of the current practice of solid organ transplantation in pediatric patients. It fo...

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Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Dunn, Stephen P. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Horslen, Simon (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
Έκδοση:1st ed. 2018.
Σειρά:Organ and Tissue Transplantation,
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • S olid organ transplantation in infants and children: Through the looking glass
  • Key differences in recipient characteristics in infants and children
  • The Pediatrician and the care of the infant or child before and after solid organ transplantation
  • Solid organ transplantation in the pediatric patient: the regulatory environment and it's requirements
  • Evaluation and listing for transplant of the infant or child with end organ failure
  • Maintenance of the infant or child with end organ failure
  • Growth and development with end organ failure
  • Anesthetic considerations for the child undergoing transplantation
  • Intensive care of the child after solid organ transplantation
  • Pathology of transplanted solid organs
  • Immunologic responses of the child to short and long term immunosuppression
  • Standard Immunosuppression
  • Standard maintenance protocols: Medication, follow up visits, immunizations, sick child calls etc
  • Immunosuppressive medication withdrawal
  • Health related quality of life
  • Late complications
  • Progressive allograft injury and chronic rejection
  • Nonadherence
  • Retransplantation: challenges and strategies
  • Transition to the adult care paradigm
  • Growing up after a transplant: the child's perspective
  • Raising a child after a transplant: the parent's perspective
  • Continuous improvement in solid organ transplantation in infants and children
  • The causes of kidney failure and timing of transplant
  • The urine reservoir: evaluation and transplant strategies
  • Technical aspects of kidney transplantation in the child
  • Living donor kidney transplantation
  • Salvage procedures for technical complications after kidney transplantation
  • The causes of liver failure and timing of transplant
  • Acute hepatic failure: Diagnosis, support and transplantation
  • Technical aspects of liver transplantation
  • Live donor liver transplantation: pediatric considerations
  • Salvage procedures for technical complications after liver transplantation
  • Causes of intestinal
  • Technical aspects of intestinal transplantation
  • Post transplant feeding regimens and monitoring paradigms
  • Salvage procedures for technical complications after intestinal transplantation
  • Living donor intestinal transplantation
  • Causes of cardiac failure and timing of transplant
  • Cardiac support devices and their use in infants and children in the overall strategy of cardiac transplantation
  • Technical aspects of cardiac transplantation
  • Salvage procedures for technical complications of cardiac transplantation
  • Causes of lung failure in infants and children and timing of transplant
  • Single or double lung transplantation: How to decide
  • Combined heart-lung transplantation
  • Technical aspects of lung and heart lung transplantation
  • Salvage operations for technical complications after lung or heart-lung transplantation.